loader: Allow ELF loader to auto-detect the ELF arch
If the caller didn't specify an architecture for the ELF machine
the load_elf() function will auto detect it based on the ELF file.
Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-id: f2d70b47fcad31445f947f8817a0e146d80a046b.1474331683.git.alistair.francis@xilinx.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
diff --git a/include/hw/loader.h b/include/hw/loader.h
index 4879b63..c59673d 100644
--- a/include/hw/loader.h
+++ b/include/hw/loader.h
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@
* load will fail if the target ELF does not match. Some architectures
* have some architecture-specific behaviours that come into effect when
* their particular values for @elf_machine are set.
+ * If @elf_machine is EM_NONE then the machine type will be read from the
+ * ELF header and no checks will be carried out against the machine type.
*/
int load_elf(const char *filename, uint64_t (*translate_fn)(void *, uint64_t),
